Released on: October 29, 2008, 9:21 am

Press Release Author: CAFOD

Industry: Consumer Services

Press Release Summary: International aid agency CAFOD has launched its World Gifts
catalogue full of presents that will warm the heart during these hard times and
really make a difference to people's lives.

Press Release Body: International aid agency CAFOD has launched its World Gifts
catalogue full of presents that will warm the heart during these hard times and
really make a difference to people's lives.

It's crazy that in the UK we waste GBP4billion a year on unwanted presents when so
many people in the world don't even have the basics in life.

This Christmas you can find something unusual for the relative that already has
everything as well as help people living in poverty in Africa, Asia and Latin
America, through aid agency CAFOD's World Gifts scheme.

Presents include bicycles to provide a health worker with transport in remote areas,
chickens and goats to boost a family's income and even a storm-proof house to
protect poor families from the hurricanes and cyclones - with prices ranging from GBP7
to GBP1,500.

CAFOD will send you a card, with space to write your own message, and a colourful,
illustrated bookmark to pass on to your relative or friend. Your gift will be used
to transform the life of someone in the developing world.

Gifts include:
A school starter pack GBP7
A Vegetable Garden GBP10
Emergency Basics Kit GBP15
Chickens GBP20
Goats GBP25
Water GBP30
A bicycle GBP50
Support for a child in need GBP75
Disaster Recovery GBP100
Fruit tree nursery GBP250
Storm proof house GBP500
Community water supply GBP750
Train a teacher GBP1,000
Community Shop GBP1,500

For more information about each gift go to
http://worldgifts.cafod.org.uk/browse_gifts

To guarantee your order for Christmas Day, place your order by midday on 19th
December by calling 0808 14 000 14 and using our Next Day postal service.
Alternatively, you can send e-gifts up to and including Christmas Day.

# Money raised from the sale of each gift will be spent on projects from one of five
funds; education and skills training; livestock and agriculture; water and food;
health including HIV and AIDS; emergencies and conflict and rehabilitation.
# Last year World Gifts raised almost GBP2 million, with over 84,000 gifts ordered.
# CAFOD is the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development, working with communities in
over 50 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America, supporting people to find their
own solutions to poverty. The agency works with all people regardless of race,
gender, religion or nationality.
# Find out more about our range of charity gifts and fair trade gifts at
http://worldgifts.cafod.org.uk/

Web Site: http://worldgifts.cafod.org.uk/

Contact Details: For more information about this release please contact Debbie
Wainwright on dwainwright@cafod.org.uk, 0207 095 5557, 07785 950378. Pictures and
interviews available on request.